Book 5 – Epic of Enoch

Book of Enoch Book 5

Epic Enoch

Section V. 91- 104

A Book of Exhortation and Promised Blessing for the Righteous and of Malediction
and Woe for the Sinners.

Section VI. 105-107

Fragment of the book of Noah

Chapter 91

1 The book written by Enoch-(Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom,
(which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the earth) for all my children
who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe
uprightness and peace. 2 Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things. 3 And the righteous
one shall arise from sleep, (Shall arise) and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace. 4 He
will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness, And He will
give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with goodness and righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light. 5 And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.

Chapter 91

1 And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers And gather together
to me all the sons of thy mother; For the word calls me, And the spirit is poured
out upon me, That I may show you everything That shall befall you for ever.’ 2
And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers and assembled
his relatives. 3 And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and said:
‘Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father, And hearken aright to the
voice of my mouth; For I exhort you and say unto you, beloved: 4 Love uprightness
and walk therein. And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart, And associate
not with those of a double heart, But walk in righteousness, my sons. And it shall
guide you on good paths, And righteousness shall be your companion. 5 For I know
that violence must increase on the earth, And a great chastisement be executed
on the earth, And all unrighteousness come to an end: Yea, it shall be cut off
from its roots, And its whole structure be destroyed. 6 And unrighteousness shall
again be consummated on the earth, And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of
violence And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree. 7 And when sin and
unrighteousness and blasphemy And violence in all kinds of deeds increase, And
apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, A great chastisement shall
come from heaven upon all these, And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath
and chastisement To execute judgement on earth. 8 In those days violence shall
be cut off from its roots, And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under heaven. 9 And all the idols of the heathen
shall be abandoned, And the temples burned with fire, And they shall remove them
from the whole earth, And they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement
of fire, And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever. 10 And
the righteous shall arise from their sleep, And wisdom shall arise and be given
unto them. 11 (And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and
the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut off from the blasphemers
in every place, and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall
perish by the sword.) 12 And after that there shall be another, the eighth week,
that of righteousness, And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement
may be executed on the oppressors, And sinners shall be delivered into the hands
of the righteous. 13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their
righteousness, And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14d And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness. 14a And after that,
in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world,
b And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth, c And the
world shall be written down for destruction. 15 And after this, in the tenth week
in the seventh part, There shall be the great eternal judgement, In which He will
execute vengeance amongst the angels. 16 And the first heaven shall depart and
pass away, And a new heaven shall appear, And all the powers of the heavens shall
give sevenfold light. 17 And after that there will be many weeks without number
for ever, And all shall be in goodness and righteousness, And sin shall no more
be mentioned for ever. 18 And now I tell you, my sons, and show you The paths
of righteousness and the paths of violence. Yea, I will show them to you again
That ye may know what will come to pass. 19 And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness, And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.’

Chapter 92

1,2 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books. And
Enoch said: ‘ Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect
of the world, And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons: According to that which appeared
to me in the heavenly vision, And which I have known through the word of the holy
angels, And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.’ 3 And Enoch began to recount
from the books and said: ‘ I was born the seventh in the first week, While judgement
and righteousness still endured. 4 And after me there shall arise in the second
week great wickedness, And deceit shall have sprung up; And in it there shall
be the first end. And in it a man shall be saved; And after it is ended unrighteousness
shall grow up, And a law shall be made for the sinners. And after that in the
third week at its close A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore. 6 And
after that in the fourth week, at its close, Visions of the holy and righteous
shall be seen, And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for
them. 7 And after that in the fifth week, at its close, The house of glory and
dominion shall be built for ever. 8 And after that in the sixth week all who live
in it shall be blinded, And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake
wisdom. And in it a man shall ascend; And at its close the house of dominion shall
be burnt with fire, And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
9 And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, And many
shall be its deeds, And all its deeds shall be apostate. 10 And at its close shall
be elected The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness, To receive
sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation. 11 (For who is there of all
the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being
troubled ? And who can think His thoughts ? and who is there that can behold all
the works 12 of heaven ? And how should there be one who could behold the heaven,
and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or
a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see 13 all their ends and think
them or do like them ? And who is there of all men that could know what is the
breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of
all of them ? 14 Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven
and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the
number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest ?)

Chapter 93

1 And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein; For
the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation, But the paths of unrighteousness
shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish. 2 And to certain men of a generation shall
the paths of violence and of death be revealed, And they shall hold themselves
afar from them, And shall not follow them. 3 And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death, And draw not nigh
to them, lest ye be destroyed. 4 But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness
and an elect life, And walk in the paths of peace, And ye shall live and prosper.
5 And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts, And suffer them not to
be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly-entreat
wisdom, So that no place may be found for her, And no manner of temptation may
minish. 6 Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression And lay deceit
as a foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, And they shall have no
peace. 7 Woe to those who build their houses with sin; For from all their foundations
shall they be overthrown, And by the sword shall they fall. (And those who acquire
gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.) 8 Woe to you, ye rich, for
ye have trusted in your riches, And from your riches shall ye depart, Because
ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your riches. 9 Ye have committed
blasphemy and unrighteousness, And have become ready for the day of slaughter,
And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement. 10 Thus I speak and
declare unto you: He who hath created you will overthrow you, And for your fall
there shall be no compassion, And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11 And your righteous ones in those days shall be A reproach to the sinners and
the godless.

Chapter 94

1 Oh that mine eyes were (a cloud of waters) That I might weep over you, And
pour down my tears as a cloud of waters: That so I might rest from my trouble
of heart! 2 who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness ? And
so judgement shall overtake you, sinners. 3 Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands, That ye may execute judgement
upon them according to your desires. 4 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which
cannot be reversed: Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
5 Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil; For ye shall be requited according
to your works. 6 Woe to you, lying witnesses, And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish. 7 Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice, And heavy shall
its yoke be upon you.

Chapter 95

1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires. 2 (And in the
day of the tribulation of the sinners, Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your nest, And ye shall ascend and enter
the crevices of the earth, And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before
the unrighteous, And the sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep.) 3 Wherefore
fear not, ye that have suffered; For healing shall be your portion, And a bright
light shall enlighten you, And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven. 4
Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being sinners, And this fact shall be a testimony
against you for a memorial of (your) evil deeds. 5 Woe to you who devour the finest
of the wheat, And drink wine in large bowls, And tread under foot the lowly with
your might. 6 Woe to you who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall
ye be consumed and wither away, Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
7 Woe to you who work unrighteousness And deceit and blasphemy: It shall be a
memorial against you for evil. 8 Woe to you, ye mighty, Who with might oppress
the righteous; For the day of your destruction is coming. In those days many and
good days shall come to the righteous-in the day of your judgement.

Chapter 96

1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame And perish in
the day of unrighteousness. 2 Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most
High is mindful of your destruction, And the angels of heaven rejoice over your
destruction. 3 What will ye do, ye sinners, And whither will ye flee on that day
of judgement, When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous ? 4 Yea, ye
shall fare like unto them, Against whom this word shall be a testimony: ” Ye have
been companions of sinners.” 5 And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall
reach unto the Lord, And for you the days of your judgement shall come. 6 And
all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the Great Holy
One, And your faces shall be covered with shame, And He will reject every work
which is grounded on unrighteousness. 7 Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the
mid ocean and on the dry land, Whose remembrance is evil against you. 8 Woe to
you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: ” We have become rich
with riches and have possessions; And have acquired everything we have desired.
9 And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver,
9c And many are the husbandmen in our houses.” 9d And our granaries are (brim)
full as with water, 10 Yea and like water your lies shall flow away; For your
riches shall not abide But speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all
in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a great curse.

Chapter 97

1 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish, For ye shall have
manifold experiences on the earth. 2 For ye men shall put on more adornments than
a woman, And coloured garments more than a virgin: In royalty and in grandeur
and in power, And in silver and in gold and in purple, And in splendour and in
food they shall be poured out as water. 3 Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine
and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And
with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in
great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire. 4 I have
sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave, And a hill does
not become the handmaid of a woman, Even so sin has not been sent upon the earth,
But man of himself has created it, And under a great curse shall they fall who
commit it. 5 And barrenness has not been given to the woman, But on account of
the deeds of her own hands she dies without children. 6 I have sworn unto you,
ye sinners, by the Holy Great One, That all your evil deeds are revealed in the
heavens, And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden. 7 And
do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that
ye do not see 8 that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence
of the Most High. From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye
oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement. 9 Woe to you,
ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the
wise, 10 and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are
prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners,
but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the
day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your
spirits. 11 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood:
Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled ? From all the
good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth;
therefore ye shall have no peace. 12 Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness:
wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered
into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut 3 off your necks and slay
you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of
the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought
the words of 5 the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who
write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may
hear them and act godlessly towards (their) 6 neighbour. Therefore they shall
have no peace but die a sudden death.

Chapter 98

1 Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall
perish, and no happy life shall be yours. 2 Woe to them who pervert the words
of uprightness, And transgress the eternal law, And transform themselves into
what they were not (into sinners): They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
3 In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the angels, That they may place the sin of
the sinners for a memorial before the Most High. 4 In those days the nations shall
be stirred up, And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.
5 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return
to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones. 6, 7 And again I swear
to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And
they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone)
and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols
not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them. 8 And they
shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall
be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through visions in their dreams.
9 Through these they shall become godless and fearful; For they shall have wrought
all their work in a lie, And shall have worshiped a stone: Therefore in an instant
shall they perish. 10 But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words
of wisdom, and understand them, And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk
in the path of His righteousness, And become not godless with the godless; For
they shall be saved. 11 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours; For you
shall be slain in Sheol. 12 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly
consumed. 13 Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you
ye shall have no peace. 14 Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage
of their fathers And whose souls follow after idols; For they shall have no rest.
15 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, And slay their neighbours
until the day of the great judgement. 16 For He shall cast down your glory, And
bring affliction on your hearts, And shall arouse His fierce indignation And destroy
you all with the sword; And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.

Chapter 99

1 And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall
be smitten And brothers one with another shall fall in death Till the streams
flow with their blood. 2 For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his
sons and his sons’ sons, And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured
brother: From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another. 3 And the horse shall
walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners, And the chariot shall be submerged
to its height. 4 In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places
And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin And the Most
High will arise on that day of judgement To execute great judgement amongst sinners.
5 And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the
holy angels To guard them as the apple of an eye, Until He makes an end of all
wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have
nought to fear. 6 And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security,
And shall understand all the words of this book, And recognize that their riches
shall not be able to save them In the overthrow of their sins. 7 Woe to you, Sinners,
on the day of strong anguish, Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them with
fire: Ye shall be requited according to your works. 8 Woe to you, ye obstinate
of heart, Who watch in order to devise wickedness: Therefore shall fear come upon
you And there shall be none to help you. 9 Woe to you, ye sinners, on account
of the words of your mouth, And on account of the deeds of your hands which your
godlessness as wrought, In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10 And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in heaven,
from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because
upon the earth ye execute 11 judgement on the righteous. And He will summon to
testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all
be withheld because of you from descending upon you, and they 12 shall be mindful
of your sins. And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending
upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that
it may descend. When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the
snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be
able to stand before them.

Chapter 100

1 Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High,
and fear ye Him 2 and work no evil in His presence. If He closes the windows of
heaven, and withholds the rain and 3 the dew from descending on the earth on your
account, what will ye do then? And if He sends His anger upon you because of your
deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud and insolent 4 words against
His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not the sailors
of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken
by the winds, and are 5 in sore trouble ? And therefore do they fear because all
their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings
of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will 6 perish therein. Are not
the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most
7 High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by
the sand ? And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die
and all that is in it; But ye sinners that are 8 on the earth fear Him not. Has
He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein ? Who has given
understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea.
9 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea ? Yet sinners fear not the Most
High.

Chapter 101

1 In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you, Whither will
ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance ? And when He launches forth His Word
against you Will you not be affrighted and fear ? 2 And all the luminaries shall
be affrighted with great fear, And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble
and be alarmed. 3 And all the angels shall execute their commandst And shall seek
to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory, And the children of earth
shall tremble and quake; And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever, And ye shall
have no peace. 4 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous, And be hopeful ye that
have died in righteousness. 5 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended
in grief, And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness,
But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners And for the day of cursing and
chastisement. 6 And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you: ” As we die, so
die the righteous, And what benefit do they reap for their deeds ? 7 Behold, even
as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we ?
From henceforth we are equal. 8 And what will they receive and what will they
see for ever ? Behold, they too have died, And henceforth for ever shall they
see no light.” 9 I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and
rob and sin, and strip men naked, and 10 acquire wealth and see good days. Have
ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner 11 of violence is
found in them till their death ? ” Nevertheless they perished and became as though
they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation.”

Chapter 102

1 Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great
and Honoured and 2 Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you.
I know a mystery And have read the heavenly tablets, And have seen the holy books,
And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them: 3 That all goodness
and joy and glory are prepared for them, And written down for the spirits of those
who have died in righteousness, And that manifold good shall be given to you in
recompense for your labours, And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of
the living. 4 And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live
and rejoice, And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before
the face of the Great One Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no
longer fear their contumely. 5 Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died, If ye
die in the wealth of your sins, And those who are like you say regarding you:
‘ Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days. 6 And how they have
died in prosperity and in wealth, And have not seen tribulation or murder in their
life; And they have died in honour, And judgement has not been executed on them
during their life.” 7 Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol
And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation. 8 And into darkness and
chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits
enter; And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace. 9 Say not in regard to the righteous and
good who are in life: ” In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced
every trouble, And met with much evil and been consumed, And have become few and
our spirit small. 10 And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help
us even with a word: We have been tortured (and destroyed), and not hoped to see
life from day to day. 11 We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We
have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become
the food of the sinners and the unrighteous, And they have laid their yoke heavily
upon us. 12 They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us; And to
those that hated us we have bowed our necks But they pitied us not. 13 We desired
to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest, But found no place
whereunto we should flee and be safe from them. 14 And are complained to the rulers
in our tribulation, And cried out against those who devoured us, But they did
not attend to our cries And would not hearken to our voice. 15 And they helped
those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few; and they concealed
their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of those that devoured
us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered
not that they had lifted up their hands against us.

Chapter 103

1 I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before
the glory of the Great 2 One: and your names are written before the glory of the
Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction;
but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, 3 ye shall shine and ye shall
be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry
for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited
on the 4 rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful, and
cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven.
What shall ye be obliged to do ? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great
judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal 6 judgement shall
be far from you for all the generations of the world. And now fear not, ye righteous,
when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions
with them, 7 but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall become companions
of the hosts of heaven. And, although ye sinners say: ” All our sins shall not
be searched out and be written down,” nevertheless 8 they shall write down all
your sins every day. And now I show unto you that light and darkness, 9 day and
night, see all your sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter
not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great
One, nor take account of your 10 idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness
issue not in righteousness but in great sin. And now I know this mystery, that
sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will
speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning
11 their words. But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages,
and do not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully
-all that I first testified 12 concerning them. Then, I know another mystery,
that books will be given to the righteous and the 13 wise to become a cause of
joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and
they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous
who have learnt there from all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’

Chapter 104

1 In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children
of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides,
and a recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I and My son will be united with
them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace:
rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.

Fragment of the Book of Noah

Chapter 105

1 And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and
she became 2 pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white as snow and
red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were
white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted
up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house 3 was very bright. And thereupon
he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the
Lord of righteousness. 4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him and 5 fled, and
came to his father Methuselah. And he said unto him: ‘ I have begotten a strange
son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven;
and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays
of the sun, and his 6 countenance is glorious. And it seems to me that he is not
sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be
7 wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore
thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for
his dwelling-place is 8 amongst the angels.’ And when Methuselah heard the words
of his son, he came to me to the ends of the earth; for he had heard that 1 was
there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him. And 1 said
unto him: ‘ Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast 9 thou come to me ? ‘ And
he answered and said: ‘ Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee,
and because of a disturbing vision 10 have I approached. And now, my father, hear
me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none,
and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the colour of his body is whiter
than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter
than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his
eyes and 11 thereupon lighted up the whole house. And he arose in the hands of
the midwife, and opened 12 his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. And his father
Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from
him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I have
come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.’ And I, Enoch, answered
and said unto him: ‘The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have
already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my
father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. And
behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with
women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begot
children by them. And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to
the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment
on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea, there shall
come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and
16 a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born unto you shall
be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all
mankind that are on the earth 8 shall die (he and his sons shall be saved). And
now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son,
and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall
be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all
the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in
his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which
was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones;
for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the
heavenly tablets.

Chapter 106

1 And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress,
till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and
sin passes away from the earth, and all 2 manner of good comes upon it. And now,
my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this 3 son, which has been born,
is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.’ And when Methuselah had heard
the words of his father Enoch-for he had shown to him everything in secret-he
returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he
will comfort the earth after all the destruction.

Chapter 107

1 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will
come after him, 2 and keep the law in the last days. Ye who have done good shall
wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of
the might of the transgressors. And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for
their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books,
and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain,
and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness,
and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there. And I saw there
something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look
over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining 5 mountains
circling and sweeping to and fro. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with
me and said unto him: ‘ What is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven but
only the flame of a blazing 6 fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation
and strong pain.’ And he said unto me: ‘ This place which thou seest-here are
cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness,
and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth
7 of the prophets-(even) the things that shall be. For some of them are written
and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and
know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of
those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed 8 by God; and of those
who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold
nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their
bodies to torture. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food,
but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord
tried them much, and their spirits were 10 found pure so that they should bless
His name. And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books.
And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be
such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden
under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were
put to shame, 11 yet they blessed Me. And now I will summon the spirits of the
good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were
born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed 12 with such honour as
their faithfulness deserved. And I will bring forth in shining light those who
13 have loved My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour.
And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the
judgement of God; for to the faithful 14 He will give faithfulness in the habitation
of upright paths. And they shall see those who were, 15 born in darkness led into
darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. And the sinners shall cry
aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons
are prescribed for them.’